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  • Four Contemporary American Playwrights

    Exploring Identity

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 contemporary American playwrights, this book covers the work of four male writers, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam and Tarell Alvin McCraney.The dramatic strategies of these award-winning playwrights range widely in styles and approach. Christopher Bigsby interweaves critical analysis of their work with biographical ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • American Dramatists in the 21st Century

    Opening Doors

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Viewing America

    Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    A Novel

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the killers come around to finish the job, the two victims are forced to flee across the country in the hopes of escaping men with nothing but vengeance on their minds.Just one step behind the vigilantes a solitary lawman tracks the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty-First Century American Playwrights

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their reputations not ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Arthur Miller and Company (1990)

    Arthur Miller Talks About His Work in the Company of Actors, Designers, Directors, and Writers

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and extensively about his own life and experiences, events and environments which provide material for his plays: his New York childhood, the Depression, the McCarthy witch-hunts. He discusses in depth both the technique of his writing and the moral and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985)

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American playwright ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Patterson

    A BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama

    by Christopher Bigsby, Malcolm Bradbury ...
    Narrated by Judy Parfitt, Lewis Fiander, Richard Vernon, Maggie Steed, Maureen Lipman, Full cast ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    An eight-part comedy serial set in a provincial university with a most unusual English departmentAgainst his better judgement, Andrew Patterson accepts a job as a lecturer in English literature at a remote Northern redbrick university. His departmental colleagues are an eccentric bunch: doddery Head of English Professor Misty, who looks like he went to school with Little Dorrit; Amy Spade, who's ... Read more

    $12.28 USD

  • A New Introduction to American Studies

    by Howard Temperley, Christopher Bigsby ...
    A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture.Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Crucible

    by Arthur Miller ...
    A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityThe place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Arthur Miller Tapes

    A Life In His Own Words

    Edited by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Christopher Bigsby and Arthur Miller shared a regular correspondence which stretched over nearly three decades of friendship. Their interaction and collaboration included a unique series of recorded interviews which now bring fresh and surprising perspectives to the life, thought and creative motivations of one of the greatest modern dramatists. The conversations range richly across topics such as ... Read more

    $24.59 USD